Professional Development & Training

Workshops, training, and individual consultations are available for faculty with the Instructional Design and Technology group in the Media Resources Center. We provide online, on-demand training as well as face-to-face sessions for all levels of experience and ability.View the calendar of upcoming training events here. Below are descriptions of the face-to-face trainings offered by the Instructional Design and Technology team at the Media Resources Center:

Tools for Instruction

Classroom Media Training - Classrooms across campus are equipped with consistent, standard technology and A/V equipment. The technology is locked with a consistent key that will work in all classrooms. Faculty can obtain a key by attending a short training session.

Online Faculty Fellows Workshop Series - Each semester the Online Faculty Fellows will provide a series of professional development workshops for their peers here at Wichita State University. Workshops range from how to teach about plagiarism to how to integrate a laboratory session into an online curriculum.

Brainshark - With Brainshark, instructors can create powerful, interactive video learning objects that blend instruction and assessment into a powerful, mobile friendly and Blackboard-compatible package. Because Brainshark tools require active work with a designer in the Instructional Design and Technology group, this training will provide a baseline for that interaction.

Blackboard On-Demand Training - Blackboard is a full-featured learning and community management platform offering a vast array of features and tools. Training is provided for instructional and administrative staff through a series of self-paced online Blackboard courses.

Blackboard Labs - It’s often easiest to learn new technologies and tools by trying them out. In our Blackboard Labs course, the instructional design team will provide instruction and support as you test out the ideas and tools you’re learning about in the online classes. Blackboard Labs are offered as both face-to-face sessions and virtual sessions (via Blackboard Collaborate).

Standards, Quality, and Best Practices

Quality Matters - Quality Matters is an internationally accepted and nationally recognized set of standards for quality online course design. This one-hour session will provide an introduction to the standards and a discussion of the value of both online and face-to-face instruction.

Authentic Assessment - Authentic Assessment is a style of assessment that provides an excellent alternative or supplement to traditional (forced-choice-driven) assessment. Instructors identify a task the student needs to complete to demonstrate mastery, and an assessment is designed to demonstrate that mastery. This one-hour training will provide an introduction to authentic assessment ideas and examples across multiple disciplines.

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Is there another topic you’d like to explore? Please let us know using the form below and we’ll investigate the possibility of adding it as a training in our schedule:

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